No need to put people in jail, fear of prosecution has actually been shown to be a weak deterrent at best even with capital punishment.
The law (or even existing 'failure to comply with crew instructions') is only needed to justify seizing the bags to have people believe they are more likely to see them again if they leave them behind than take them.
Pax view thinking scenarios:
Premise : Bag is important to the pax.
1: I will leave it behind for altruistic, help everyone, reasons : A few.
2: I will leave it behind because I might go jail: "no way they would never"
3: I will leave it behind because I might get hurt: "not me I am VIP/invincible"
4: I will leave it behind because it will be confiscated and I will never see it again if I take it with me.
If I leave it I will probably have it within a day since most evacs don't end in fireball.
More and more will pick #4 after a few well publicised instances where exactly that happens.
The desire is the bag, attack the bag not the person.
Legally property is much easier to mess with than people.
Last edited by MurphyWasRight; 15th Aug 2016 at 18:50.
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